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... as just about every German has a familial link back to the Nazi party and it is no longer something to be entirely ashamed of and bury in family history, rather to learn about, learn from, and accept as reality. I talked to her briefly while walking from one place to the next about how in Australia we have ANZAC Day (which she was surprisingly quite familiar with) and how having someone in the armed forces during either war in your family history is something to be very ...

Today we spent the day in Berlin, Germany. We did a Fat Tyre Bike Tour around the whole city, the guides name was Neil. He was from Manchester in the UK but he has been living in Berlin for 8 years. He was very friendly and knowledgeable. Our tour started at the TV Tower which is taller than the Eiffel Tower at 384m. We saw the Holocaust memorial for all of the people killed by Hitler. There were 2700 blocks that formed the memorial. We also saw the remains of the ...

... progressed during the war. It was again very interesting, and included a lot of photos and copies of documents, which were very interesting. Some of the photos were really rather gruesome, and just left me feeling sorry for the soldiers who carried out the actions, as I couldn't imagine trying to come to grips with all the things I had done, if I had been them. We then rushed back to Alexanderplatz to meet Tamsen and Phil and head to church, which was really good. The people there ...

... sad or shocked, but this one left us feeling angry. Again, this is our opinion of the museum and not the Jewish faith and their struggle. That evening we went to a Couchsurfing meeting. That was at Cafe Avril in Kreuzberg. It was a very good meeting of people from all around the world. Must have been at least 35 people. We left around 10pm because we had to get up early. It was great to travel to another, more suburban, part of ...

We arrive in Berlin Tegel Airport and we were staying with Martin Fella, our couchsurfing host for 2 nights. His apartment is very close to the airport and you could see the planes in close distance as they are approaching the runway. We took the bus from the airport and changed to another bus to get to his house and he was already waiting for us outside. The bus system in Berlin is very organised and goes by the ...